RE: Spec recommendation for paren encapsulation? (was: signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?)

2017-10-12 Thread Wheeler, David A
Gary O'Neall [mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com]: > If we have more than one line for a compound set of licenses, it would be > ambiguous if the text following the first line of a compound license is part > of the license expression or just some other text. To solve this ambiguity, > we introduced the

RE: Spec recommendation for paren encapsulation? (was: signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?)

2017-10-12 Thread Gary O'Neall
n encapsulation? (was: > signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?) > > W. Trevor King [mailto:wk...@tremily.us]: > > The Appendix V wording for that is: > > > > Representing Multiple Licenses > > > > Multiple licenses can be represented using a SPDX

Re: Spec recommendation for paren encapsulation? (was: signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?)

2017-10-12 Thread W. Trevor King
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 07:06:56PM +, Wheeler, David A wrote: > W. Trevor King: > > The Appendix V wording for that is: > > > > Representing Multiple Licenses > > > > Multiple licenses can be represented using a SPDX license > > expression as defined in Appendix IV. A set of licenses m

RE: Spec recommendation for paren encapsulation? (was: signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?)

2017-10-12 Thread Wheeler, David A
W. Trevor King [mailto:wk...@tremily.us]: > The Appendix V wording for that is: > > Representing Multiple Licenses > > Multiple licenses can be represented using a SPDX license expression > as defined in Appendix IV. A set of licenses must be enclosed in > parentheses (this is a conventi

Spec recommendation for paren encapsulation? (was: signifigance of nested parenthesis with only ORs?)

2017-10-12 Thread W. Trevor King
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 06:21:05PM +, Wheeler, David A wrote: > The section you want to consult is SPDX specification version 2.1, > Appendix IV ("SPDX License Expressions"): > https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.jxpfx0ykyb60 > > Subsection "Composite License Expressions" says